Higher Education Act of 1965

Higher Education Act of 1965

Legislation in the United States that increased federal funding for colleges and universities. It also created the Pell grant, Stafford loan, PLUS loan, and similar programs to make post-secondary education more affordable for students. It has been reauthorized and amended several times since its original passage. It was part of the larger Great Society movement in the United States.

On September 22, the Senior Department Official (SDO)1 for the US Department of Education (ED) released a letter announcing the decision to terminate the recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as a gatekeeper for student financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (Title IV programs).

The federally funded Higher Education Act of 1965, Title III, Part B, Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities was designed and mandated to support the HBCU sector identified as "developing institutions.

Remember that it was this country's commitment to education through such efforts as the GI Bill and the Higher Education Act of 1965 that encouraged millions of students to further their education in the first place.

The Department of Education (Department) is required to use negotiated rulemaking to develop proposed regulations for programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).

Federal assistance helps students and families pay for postsecondary education through several policy tools--grant and loan programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and more recently enacted tax preferences.

221-1(e)(1) provides that an eligible educational institution can be any college, university, vocational school or other postsecondary educational institution described in Section 481 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 USC Section 1088).

The maximum room and board allowance is the amount applicable to the student in calculating costs of attendance for federal financial aid programs under Section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as in effect on June 6, 2001, or, for a student living in housing owned or operated by an eligible educational institution, the amount charged to the student by the educational institution for room and board.

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